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Are Verbs important? Why/ why not?
The English verb has only 2 forms.
Right answer: It has 3 forms: The Infinitive, the Gerund & the Participle
a) How are the 3 Verb Forms used?
e.g. I play, I am playingI want to play
While playing, I hurt myself
b) How are the 3 Verb Forms used?
e.g. I was happy when I got your e-mail
I was happy to get your e-mail.
Main OR Finite Verbs = the backbone of a sentence, limited by number, person, voice, mood and tense.
Auxiliary OR Helping Verbs = aids of Main ones responsible for changing Moods in a sentence.
Right answer: aids of Main verbs in forming the tenses (BE, HAVE, DO).
Modal Verbs= further aids of both Main and Auxiliary ones and responsible for changing Moods within a sentence.
What are Transitive Verbs?
What are Intransitive Verbs?
Can verbs be both Transitive & Intransitive?
Can Intransitive verbs have Transitive uses?
What are Double-Object Verbs?
What are the 2 possible constructions of Double-Object Verbs?
A verb’s ‘number’
All of the above
focuses on the action
must come before the subject
shifts the focus of the sentence
is obvious by the person & the verb ending(s)
A verb’s ‘Person’ OR ‘Subject’ can be:
a noun phrase in the nominative case
a noun clause
a gerund/ gerund phrase
a common or proper noun/ a pronoun
all of the following choices
Voice= form of the verb that shifts the focus of the sentence.
There are 4 Main Voices in English.
Right answer: 2 - Active & Passive (& a kind of Middle Voice).
Match to the right definition by clicking in turn on the right yellow shape:
Active Voice
Middle Voice I
Passive Voice
Middle Voice II
Moods
show fact, non-fact, orders, etc
focuses on action & object
focuses on ‘who’
has the action returning to the subject
can be formed by -self pronouns
What does the ‘Infinitive Column’ of the Irregular-Verbs List give?
How is the ‘Past Column’ of the Irregular-Verbs List used?
And the ‘Participle Column’?
Double Participle Verbs= transitive verbs with two objects.
Right answer: verbs with two participle forms: one for the perfect and passive tenses & one used as adjective, predicate or suffix in compound adjectives.
What are the 2 participle forms of the following verbs?
• work: wrought, worked• drink: drunken, drunk• load: laden, loaded• get: gotten, got• rot: rotten, rotted• knit: knit, knitted• sink: sunken, sunk• shave: shaven, shaved• shrink: shrunken, shrunk• strike: stricken, struck• clothe: clad, clothed• light: lighted, lit• swell: swollen, swelled
What are the spelling rules for the ‘3rd person singular of the Present’?
What are the pronunciation rules for the ‘-s ending of the 3rd person singular of the Present’?
What are the spelling rules for the ‘-ed ending of the Past Simple & the Past Participle’?
What are the pronunciation rules for the ‘-ed ending of the Past Simple & the Past Participle’?
What are the spelling rules for the ‘-ing ending of the Gerund & the Present Participle’?
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